He has traveled a long road: starter and castoff, journeyman and backup. Now
Nick Foles
stands at the summit of his sport.
How did it happen? Oh, sure, there was the mid-December injury to rising star
Carson Wentz
, with Foles stepping in...

How the Philadelphia Eagles and New England Patriots match up in Super Bowl LII:
Eagles run offense vs. Patriots run defense
The Eagles have three backs — Jay Ajayi, LeGarrette Blount and Corey Clement — and use them all. Blount has an NFL-best 10...

Kamu Grugier-Hill was so far off the radar for college football in Hawaii that the only reason the Eagles special teams ace earned a scholarship to Eastern Illinois was because the school had recruited one of his teammates.
Grugier-Hill played soccer his...

The
Eagles
are playing some of their best football heading into Sunday's
Super Bowl
matchup with the
Patriots
.
One thing Philadelphia can't contend with is New England's huge experience advantage in the big game.
On the 53-man...

Howie Roseman wrapped his arms around Doug Pederson on the sideline in the final minute of Philadelphia's lopsided win over Minnesota in the NFC championship game and flashed a big smile. The most criticized team executive in the city engineered a...

Culture can only carry an NFL team so far.
Same for depth, franchise quarterbacks, expert coaching and just about any ingredient that goes into a successful season.
What’s helped the Philadelphia Eagles overcome so many injuries, including one that...

Compared to the New England Patriots, the Philadelphia Eagles are neophytes in the Super Bowl business.
That doesn’t mean they won’t know how to handle the pressure of a week away from their home base leading up to the NFL’s biggest game of the season...

Using a cane to walk on his surgically repaired left knee, Carson Wentz celebrated a victory with his teammates that many thought the Philadelphia Eagles couldn't secure without him. Wentz led them to a division title. Nick Foles is taking them to the...

When Chris Long and LeGarrette Blount joined the Philadelphia Eagles after winning a Super Bowl in New England, both players envisioned another title run with a team on the rise. They had more faith than most, but the Eagles are two wins away from a...

Grammar aside, the Philadelphia Eagles’ rallying cry of 2017-18 is uplifting and yet strangely poignant.
“We all we got, we all we need,” says it all about a team that has come together through extreme adversity to accomplish a series of firsts.
First —...

The list of players sitting out this weekend's conference championships is almost as impressive as the starting lineups: Julian Edelman. Carson Wentz. Dalvin Cook. Dont'a Hightower. Allen Robinson. Sam Bradford. Following the NFL's season of carnage...

Doug Pederson was too close to Andy Reid to get fan approval when the Philadelphia Eagles hired him to replace Chip Kelly. Pederson was Reid's first starting quarterback in Philadelphia back in 1999 when he groomed rookie Donovan McNabb. Then Pederson...

Incredibly, even now there are some non-believers.
After 17 games of proving themselves over and over — and under the most adverse circumstances anyone could imagine, the Philadelphia Eagles still haven’t won everyone over.
It wasn’t enough that they lost...

One of the things the Philadelphia Eagles can expect from the visiting Atlanta Falcons in Saturday’s NFC divisional round playoff game (4:35 p.m., NBC) is a defense that doesn’t rely on deceit.
The Falcons don’t play chess. They just play football.
“Their...

Now that they’ve reached the single-elimination portion of their schedule, the Philadelphia Eagles will need to rely on their more experienced players to help them through it.
That they don’t have nearly as many playoff-tested players on the roster as...

All the Philadelphia Eagles need to ensure they stay home in January is one more win. A victory over the Oakland Raiders (6-8) on Monday night secures the NFC's No. 1 seed for the Eagles (12-2) and gives coach Doug Pederson an opportunity to rest his...

Red flags flew figuratively like a swarm of locusts when the Los Angeles Rams came on a jailbreak rush, blocked an Eagles punt and returned it for a touchdown on Dec. 10.
This was the kind of thing the Eagles had grown accustomed to doing to others —...